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MAY 16, 2024

There are so few Indigenous physicians in the United States — just 0.3% of doctors — that their numbers barely show up in charts and graphs depicting the diversity of the medical workforce. But as of Thursday, there will be at least nine more. Thursday is graduation day for the first class of the nation’s only tribally affiliated medical school, the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation.

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PharmaVoice

MAY 13, 2024

Key factors changing how much Americans spend on prescriptions.

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MAY 13, 2024

Read this tutorial on the use of point of care ultrasonography (POCUS) for pediatric soft tissue ultrasonography. Then test your skills on the ALiEMU course page to receive your PEM POCUS badge worth 2 hours of ALiEMU course credit. Take the ALiEMU PEM POCUS: Soft Tissue Quiz Case Goals List the indications of performing a pediatric soft tissue point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS).

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BioPharma Dive

MAY 16, 2024

The biotech, tentatively named Hercules CM Newco, has rights to three incretin drugs discovered by Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals, two of which are in clinical testing.

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

STAT

MAY 15, 2024

WASHINGTON — It’s Friday May 10, and I’m on my way to what feels like the world’s weirdest drug deal. I received a text the day before from a man named Karl. My order would be arriving from Maryland between 2 and 4 p.m. at the northwest D.C. drop site. It’ll be safely wrapped in ice packs, he assured me.

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PharmaVoice

MAY 14, 2024

The old guard of pharma bestsellers is seeing more competition, but newer drugs demonstrating sales and revenue growth can build up the coffers in years to come.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 13, 2024

Takeda has made a strong play for a stake in the Alzheimer’s disease market, paying $100 million upfront for an option on AC Immune’s amyloid-targeting immunotherapy. The option fee could be followed by another up to $2.1 billion in potential milestones if Takeda takes global rights to the programme, currently headed by ACI-24.060 which is in a phase 1b/2 trial with new data due in the next few weeks.

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STAT

MAY 16, 2024

Higher ranking military officers receive more resources and better care than low ranking military officers, according to an analysis of 1.5 million military ER visits published Thursday in the journal Science. The study also showed that white physicians expended less effort on Black patients, even when rank was taken into account: Higher ranking Black officers received care from white physicians that was similar to that received by lower ranking white officers.

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The Pharmacist

MAY 14, 2024

A local campaign to reduce prescriptions as part of a drive for sustainability has seen up to a 16% drop in requests for prescriptions. In February, Dorset integrated care board (ICB) launched the campaign to ‘only order what you need’ to address patients’ beliefs that they had to reorder all their medicines every time they got […] The post Prescription requests down by 16% due to ICB sustainability campaign appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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Pharma Times

MAY 16, 2024

The OptiZest study aims to investigate a personalised dose of Zestril in these patients

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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PharmaVoice

MAY 17, 2024

The strange — and difficult — aspects of the recent influenza outbreak in cattle and its potential threat to humans.

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STAT

MAY 14, 2024

WASHINGTON — On a bright June day in 2018, one of the nation’s top regulators waved groceries in the air, quizzing the secretary of agriculture on which agency is charged with monitoring different types of food. Scott Gottlieb, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration at the time, grinned widely as he held liquid egg whites and a carton of eggs.

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BioPharma Dive

MAY 13, 2024

Goldman Sachs and Eli Lilly are among those backing the startup, which claims its prospect could be more potent than the myelofibrosis therapies that have come to market in recent years.

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Pharma Times

MAY 16, 2024

The cardiovascular disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, affects around 6,500 people in the UK

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PharmaVoice

MAY 16, 2024

The biotech, tentatively named Hercules CM Newco, has rights to three incretin drugs discovered by Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals, two of which are in clinical testing.

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STAT

MAY 13, 2024

Reluctance among dairy farmers to report H5N1 bird flu outbreaks within their herds or allow testing of their workers has made it difficult to keep up with the virus’s rapid spread , prompting federal public health officials to look to wastewater to help fill in the gaps. On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to unveil a public dashboard tracking influenza A viruses in sewage that the agency has been collecting from 600 wastewater treatment sites around the

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The Pharmacist

MAY 13, 2024

Hub and spoke dispensing between pharmacies owned by different legal entities will be allowed from 1 January 2025, subject to parliamentary approval, the government has announced. In its consultation response published today, the government proposed introducing two models of hub and spoke dispensing across legal entities. In one model the hub would directly supply the […] The post BREAKING: Government publishes hub and spoke consultation response appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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Pharma Times

MAY 14, 2024

Heart failure is a cardiovascular disease that affects more than 64 million people worldwide

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Speaker: Chris Antypas and Josh Halladay

Access to limited distribution drugs and payer contracts are key to pharmacy expansion. But how do you prepare your operations to take the next step? Meaningful data: Collect and share clinical data regarding outcomes, utilization, and more Reporting: Limited distribution models require efficient tracking and reporting systems Workflows: Align workflows with specific pharma and payer contractual requirements For in-depth, expert insights on pharmacy expansion, watch this webinar from Inovalon.

PharmaVoice

MAY 16, 2024

Execs from J&J, Novartis, Novo Nordisk and AbbVie sound off on the Inflation Reduction Act, supply issues and launch preparations in a tricky environment.

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STAT

MAY 17, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO — According to Elisabeth Bik, a scientific watchdog who has discovered thousands of errors in scientific papers, the problem of fraud, errors, or data mishandling in the scientific literature seems to be getting worse. In the last couple of years, Bik’s been seeing an influx of AI-generated papers in the scientific record that are “nonsensical and clearly low quality.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 13, 2024

Think open-source is just for software? Think again. Learn how clinical researchers are embracing open data and tools to overhaul the drug development process.

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Pharma Times

MAY 17, 2024

The mosquito-borne disease affected around 249 million people globally in 2022

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

PharmaVoice

MAY 15, 2024

After missing analysts’ earnings expectations for Mounjaro sales in the first quarter due to overwhelming demand, Lilly is also dealing with a legal loss and incoming pricing questions from lawmakers.

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STAT

MAY 16, 2024

As pediatricians who take care of children in the inpatient, emergency, and primary care settings, we are alarmed by the recent trend of families having to go without basic medications to control their child’s asthma. At least seven children have died due to uncontrolled asthma this year in the Philadelphia region, a dramatic increase from prior years.

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BioPharma Dive

MAY 16, 2024

While results indicated the drug works as intended, it didn’t have enough of an effect on a protein that’s become integral to many ALS research programs.

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Pharma Times

MAY 15, 2024

The condition is the ninth most common cancer in the UK and affects 12,300 people annually

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PharmaVoice

MAY 13, 2024

As commercial momentum builds, coverage incentives for the Medicare market are expected to favor biosimilars in 2025.

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STAT

MAY 13, 2024

The number of children who received their routine vaccinations declined during the pandemic, so public health officials have been focusing on getting kids back up to date. They should also be paying attention to adults as a new, first-of-its-kind report quantifying the economic impact of adult immunizations makes clear. Researchers at the nonprofit Office of Health Economics , based in London, analyzed four adult vaccine programs — for the flu, pneumonia, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

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The Pharmacist

MAY 14, 2024

Mitigations and proposed legislative amendments will 'ensure patient safety, transparency and accountability’ in hub and spoke changes, the government has said in its consultation response. The planned changes will allow hubs to assemble medicines and then send them to back to the spoke for supply to the patient, or directly to the patient. This second […] The post Government plans to 'ensure accountability and patient safety' in hub and spoke appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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Pharma Times

MAY 15, 2024

The autoimmune disease, which affects 1.

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